Facebook Creates Team to ‘Beam’ Internet Everywhere on Earth

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, including beaming it down from the sky.

Zuckerberg said the team includes scientists in the field of aeronautics and communications from organizations like NASA, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and Ascenta, a UK-based company that developed the world’s longest-flying unmanned solar aircraft, he said. Facebook said it had hired five people from Ascenta.